Her Head Is A Mess…We All Love Her

I remember when I was in my final year at Uni (1999). My house mates & I would play FIFA 98 & we got into a habit of trying to psych each other out by playing our favourite song during a game. We’d take turns of having our own song playing (usually at full blast) & try to convince the other that because our particular song was playing we would win. More often than not that was the case.

Aaahhhh student lifestyle…playing FIFA & mind games on your friends, when I should have been studying. Those were the days

Well the song below was my lucky song & was instrumental in getting me the goals!!! (at least that what I tell myself)

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The Heat Is On!!

In order to get the best out of this post you must first turn the volumne up loud…..LOUDER………don’t worry if it’s on an odd number, just crank it up…..a little bit more…. there, that’ll do! Now Press play on the video below.

Why? Because as a 7-8 year old kid I used to do just this on my vhs recorder & go nuts when the music kicked in. There I was, from a suburban living room in Liverpool UK, boogieing away to a song depicting scenes of the steel city, Detroit USA!

I watched Beverley Hills Cop again tonight & got a blast from the past

My favourite part of the song is over within 42secs…starting with the police sirens mingled with the ticking clock…leading to the spine tingling bit starting at 22secs, to the full blown start at 34secs. This is where baby Graham goes ballistic in said living room all those years ago. 35 year old Graham did it to a lesser extent tonight. The only difference? I was drinking Ribeana back then…today it was a nice glass of red wine

OK well enough waffle & one last thing. The person to comment on, in my humble opinion, the best one liner from Beverley Hills Cop will get a post about their very own blog. I promise to be gushing & complimentary only.

Comments apply to Beverley Hills Cop 1 only. Any comments on the following 3 sequels  will be ignored & in some cases criticised openly, if you’re offended by this disclaimer well that’s not my problem!

Enjoy

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How Did They Get Away With It?!?

I was doing my postie round this morning &, whilst listening to the radio, the topic of Captain Pugwash came on. The presenters were talking about the innuendo that can be seen in kids TV cartoons & yep, Captain Pugwash came up!

I don’t think the escapades of Captain Pugwash made it out of the UK, & if I’m honest, I’m not even sure it was made here to begin with. But the cast of certain character names was hilarious…The three that stand out are…Sea-man Stains, Master-Bates & of course Roger the Cabin Boy! I mean come on, how did those names get past the censor commission. Bloody glad they did though as that is classic innuendo right there

The thing that had me smiling & laughing most this morning, was that one of the presenters didn’t get the innuendo in Roger The Cabin Boy. Specifically & I quote “Really? I didn’t know roger meant that!”. While all the other presenters were laughing at this in the background, one of his female colleagues had to write it down on a piece of paper for him.

The cutest thing is, the innuendo would go right over the heads of kids & is just fun for ‘adults’.

Anyway, I thought I had to share it. Let me know of innuendo laden kids programmes where you’re from.

I only realised later on that I may have scared some people on my round…cut to me with a demonic gurning like grin on my face, asking a customer to sign a package I had for them

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I’ll Give It A Try

I’ve noticed quite a few bloggers, myself included, are struggling with writing. So I checked out WP’s inspiration for writing suggestions & stumbled across this simple one. Go to page 82 of the current book you’re reading & fit in the 3rd full sentence into a post. Now I think they meant to fit in creatively, but I’m just going to type it in as a sentence all on it’s own.

The book I’m reading is the the one pictured above & the sentence is “After unfolding his laptop on top of the console, the screen instantly bringing up Janus’s ammonite icon, he used a coil of optic cable to plug into a nearby port, then waited a second until the icon started blinking.”

Sheesh that sounds real dull doesn’t it. Especially as the sentence preceding that is “He fired again, here and there, sending others scurrying for cover, then sat down and opened his briefcase.” I like the casualness of shooting at people and then calmly sitting downing & opening a briefcase. It just sounds like he’s a bad ass.

Well that is my post. Probably my most random, pointless & dullest post all rolled into one.

Enjoy your Sunday. I’m going out with the wife to a local Mexican Tavern for some brunch. Mmmmmm full English. You truly can’t beat a Full English Breakfast. I’m hoping being in a Mexican establishment my goatee will not look so out of place

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Movember Update

This is my Movember update. It’s looking very ginger!!!!

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Movember

Here in the UK over the last couple of years the month of November has been christened by many as Movember. People randomly grow moustaches for the month to raise money for charity etc… So I thought this year I’d partake. My wife isn’t happy, but hey she’s a woman so no change there

So here is my first shot of said tash. Although I’m actually going to go for a more full beard look early on. Afterwards I may go for the goatee & then maybe the porn tash.

OK so this is roughly five days growth & I’m guessing I may not be able to manage a full blown beard, but a goatee should be achievable.

Writing about this growth has reminded me of my willow tree at the back of our flat. It is still fighting back from the brink & below is a new shot of it’s plumage. I doubt it will get any bigger until next spring as autumn/winter is well under way.

You might think it’s not that impressive, but when you consider it looked like this at the end of June, it’s come back well in only four months

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Bad Blogger!

I’ve been a bad blogger. Not only have I not posted on my own blog, but I’ve neglected all the blogs I follow too.

What punishments do you think I deserve…hmmm this could go off on some weird tangents knowing you guys

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If You Can Find Them

Just because…

…play it loud & enjoy…

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For Shits & Giggles

You got to love this guy!!!

 

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My Postman Shenanigans

I was looking for a picture to do with Postmen, but I came across this & had to share. The ever so flippant “…one thing led to another & now I think I’m pregnant” had me in stitches

You might think that as I’ve not posted about my new job in recent days things have been going swimmingly. You would be wrong! Although days of no problems have occurred, the following shows I’m still on a learning curve.

First Week

On the last day of my first week I was crossing a roundabout. America see to the right. I’ve been informed you don’t have these as you can’t handle them. Apparently one was installed in Miami & all hell broke loose!

So anyway I was crossing the roundabout & as I was mounting the curb, I misread the speed I was enthusiastically approaching it at. My bike skills stopped me from crashing, however my mail in the front tray was not so lucky. Up in the air it went & unfortunately for me it did not land back where it took off. There I was getting off my bike to see some mail on the pavement (Pavement my vocabulary challenged American friends NOT sidewalk.) & some on the roundabout itself. Now this was a Saturday at around 11am so it was getting pretty busy. I decided I would save the Queens mail & chase it around the roundabout, risking life & limb avoiding vehicles to do so. Did I mention it was windy? No? Well it was, so my successful chase was no mean feat. Not only was I chasing post, but so were two kindly pensioners, one in motorised scooter, who had post trapped beneath their feet/wheels.

Second week in post man job:

Early in my second week I’m thinking “Hey, way to go I’m making good time”. BANG the pavement hit me! My first thought was “Shit what happened, why am I laying prone on the floor, with my mail raining down on me like confetti”. Now some of you might be laughing already figuring I had slipped in dog doodoo again. You would be wrong, I had simply tripped on the curb of a driveway. It was a viciously steep curb too. I skinned my knee & bled for the rest of my round

Three days ago upon completing my round I thought “Hmmm, now rather than going back to the post depot following the route I know I’ll try a shortcut!” Mistake…I got lost. However it was one of those lucky losts (is that a word) whereby I popped out exactly at the depot from another direction. I don’t know how that happened, as my internal compass had me miles away.

Two days ago I got cramp in my left calf. I valiantly struggled on hoping to shake it off. I ended up back at the depot with post still in my bag cramping in both calf’s.

So as you can see, when God was handing out delivering the post skills I was at the back of the queue!

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